A few days ago I was confronted with a weird trouble. That my string that I used which has some typical french characters in it changed to ugly thing like \u009 instead of é. I also discovered that other people who used the serialize() function on GtkSelectionData also encountered some weird things.

So today I found the solution the GtkSelectiondata object works with URI strings. All you have to do is encode your string with the function urlencode($your_string);.

Anant Narayanan, one of the PHP-GTK maintainers, has just announced on the PHP-GTK dev list that it seems PHP will be participating in the Summer of Code again this year, and this might be a good opportunity to get a student to work on some aspect of PHP-GTK.

After a long development and QA cycle, we are proud to release version 2.0 of PHP-GTK. This release, named leap day special, marks PHP-GTK 2 as stable and comes with support for GTK+ versions 2.6 through 2.12. Although support for more recent versions than 2.8 is not 100% complete, we hope to cover as much of the API as possible in upcoming releases.

This release comes with support for custom GTypes and signals, more API coverage, and the usual slew of bug fixes. Take a look at the Changelog for detailed information on changes since the beta.

This application can
manage a database for you, in the way phpMyAdmin does. Furthermore, it can
convert various types of databases to another type of database (eg from MySQL to
SQLite, Access to MySQL, PostgreSQL to MySQL and more).

It can also backup your database in plain SQL - it can even backup a database in another type of SQL-format (backup a MySQL-database in valid SQLite SQL-format and more).